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TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day.

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EaR7 TIL of “Sinus Inversus”, a rare condition where you are born with all your internal organs on the opposite side of your body. It is harmless by itself and people are often unaware that they have it.
DbNV TIL the Bamiyan Buddha statues taken down by the Taliban in 2001 have been recreated using holographic 3D Laser Light Projection
oEZE TIL that a cave diver who let go of the underwater guideline and got lost whilst exploring the Sterkfontein Caves, a vast complex of passages and pools in South Africa, lived for three weeks in the pitch dark before dying of starvation.
9v0G TIL chisels used to be handed out to people visiting Stonehenge, so they could chip away at the ancient monument to get their own souvenirs.
W7kQL TIL that in 1940 Hitler decided to change the name of the battle cruiser “Deutschland” to “Lützow” recognizing that the sinking of a warship was a propaganda disaster if it bore the name of its country.